(18 March 2015, Sydney) IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) welcomes Labor’s commitment to protecting native wildlife included in its ‘Plan for Our Environment’ announced yesterday.

Luke Foley's pledge to fully explore alternatives to Section 10 of the Pacific Highway Upgrade to protect a nationally-significant koala population is particularly welcome, along with the pledge to create a series of koala reserves in NSW including a Koala National Park.

More than 200 guests came together the other night at the historic Telegraph building on Tverskaya Street in downtown Moscow to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Russia office.

A unique partnership designed to lead to a breakthrough in the elephant poaching crisis was announced today by Prof. Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

A statement of intent was signed between IFAW and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officially launching IFAW’s tenBoma project which aims to protect elephants by stopping poaching before it happens.